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The parents of the physician Oksana were shot by russians in the car during their attempts to evacuate themselves from Bucha (the couple moved there from Luhansk region two days before the full-scale russia’s invasion). The woman’s mother died at the scene, and her father was injured. Oksana decided to operate on him with no outside help, in the private hospital where she worked.

Subsequently, Oksana and her family moved to the Ivano-Frankivsk region. She and her sister established the “Nash Sokil” Charity Foundation in memory of their deceased mother. The foundation helps displaced persons with evacuation and find shelter, and also sends assistance to those in need among other things.

Moreover, Oksana headed the “Dobrobut-Fundatsiia” Charity Foundation, where she together with her colleagues provides free medical care to war victims: both civilians and military.

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• dead
• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

For several months, a journalist from Kherson worked for the Ukrainian media under the conditions of occupation: she filmed anti-russian rallies on her smartphone and went live while hiding her face. After spending more than six months in the occupation, the woman decided to leave for Ukraine-controlled territory, but the russians kept her at the checkpoint for almost a month, so she had to live with strangers or even in the premises of a church. Now the journalist works for a Ukrainian TV channel and plans to return home soon.

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• Kherson

Anatolii Patii, a resident of Kyiv region, does not have an agricultural education, but he was able to invent his own technology for greenhouses and patent it. His farm, where oranges, lemons, tangerines and papayas bloom and bear fruit, is built according to his design. During the active phase of the war in the region, the russians stood 30 km from the village where Anatolii’s greenhouse is located. Explosions were heard all around, the heating did not work, and the weather got cold again. But the gardener’s plants survived even in the tropical part of his greenhouse.

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For several months in a row, beauty volunteers have been traveling through the de-occupied towns and villages of Kyiv region: manicurists, hairdressers, make-up artists and massage therapists work with local residents for free. In particular, they visited Bucha, Dymer, Katyuzhanka and many other places. The idea of ​​beauty volunteering for de-occupied villages belongs to make-up artist Olha Belytska. In the spring, she and her colleagues did beauty treatments for the patients of Okhmatdyt in Kyiv and saw that some women, having barely recovered from shell and cluster bomb attacks, complained that they were staying there with their hair uncombed and with no makeup. So, together with like-minded people, Olha comes to the de-occupied settlements of Kyiv region every week to help people who survived the horrors of occupation to feel beautiful again.

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• occupation
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• Kyiv

Volunteers of Dia-Dzen patients’ organization deliver diabetes medicines to the occupied territories. Yuliya Kuklina, Co-Founder of Dia-Dzen says that these trips often take several weeks. In particular, the organization managed to deliver a box of insulin to the temporarily occupied Berdyansk in Zaporizhia. There, the volunteer of the team had to simply distribute the medicine on the street, because there was no normal mobile communication in the city. Volunteers of the organization also go to the de-occupied territories, in particular, to Kharkiv region, because insulin-dependent people will need the drug and can live without it for only a few weeks.

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The host of the morning radio show helps pensioners in the Kyiv region. In particular, in localities affected by russian occupation. For this purpose, the girl founded the Charitable Foundation “Yulia’s Grannies”. One of the main activities of the Foundation is guardianship of the elderly and single people. Now the fund has five employees who regularly go to nursing homes in the Kyiv region, bring aid and just communicate with grannies and grandpas.

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• occupation
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Rubizhne Hosiery Manufactory, the factory of which was destroyed by russians during the capture of the city, moved to Lviv. In the Western Ukraine, they decided to continue operation: found a site, purchased the equipment and already sewed the first socks. A part of the employees also left the Luhansk region and continued their work at the enterprise.

Before the full-scale russian invasion and occupation of Rubizhne, the factory had operated successfully for more than 20 years.

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• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• Lviv

The team of the Non-Profit Organization “Countrywomen” works on the animated series about life in occupied Mariupol based on the diary of the local resident named Nataliia. The series is called “Mariupol. Civilian’s Military Chronicles”. The first 3 episodes have already been released. The creators of the animated film release a new episode every week. The latter will be released on February 24 — the anniversary of the beginning of a full-scale russian invasion. Now the series is made in Ukrainian and Russian, and it is also planned to create English-language version of “Mariupol”.

For reference: The “Countrywomen” project was initiated by Kseniya Draganuk, presenter and journalist, to tell the world about incredible Ukrainian women. After the full-scale invasion of russia, the project turned into a non-profit organization with a volunteer headquarters that supports Ukrainian military women.

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• occupation
• Mariupol

Mykola Kulish Music and Drama Theater from the temporarily occupied Kherson announced a tour of Ukraine with a solo performance “The Cat On the Memory of Darkness.” This is a story about 8 years of life in war-settings in Donbas, as well as the reality in which Ukrainians from Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk regions and a part of Kharkiv region found themselves. The first performance will take place on October 20 in Kropyvnytskyi, followed by Mykolaiv and Odesa. In total, performances in 7 cities of Ukraine are planned.

For information: in May, the occupation authorities of Kherson appointed a man who had previously worked there as a security guard to lead the Mykola Kulish Music and Drama Theater. And in July, invaders set up a warehouse of artillery ammunition in the theater.

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• occupation
• Kherson

The parents of the physician Oksana were shot by russians in the car during their attempts to evacuate themselves from Bucha (the couple moved there from Luhansk region two days before the full-scale russia’s invasion). The woman’s mother died at the scene, and her father was injured. Oksana decided to operate on him with no outside help, in the private hospital where she worked.

Subsequently, Oksana and her family moved to the Ivano-Frankivsk region. She and her sister established the “Nash Sokil” Charity Foundation in memory of their deceased mother. The foundation helps displaced persons with evacuation and find shelter, and also sends assistance to those in need among other things.

Moreover, Oksana headed the “Dobrobut-Fundatsiia” Charity Foundation, where she together with her colleagues provides free medical care to war victims: both civilians and military.

• casualties
• dead
• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv